Moseley Miscellany - Prose and Verse 1997-2012

Informationen zum Autor Sangharakshita is the founder and principal teacher of Triratna, a worldwide Buddhist movement. With teaching experience spanning 60 years, he is the author of over 40 books. Klappentext Sangharakshita, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community, moved to Moseley, Birmingham in 1997. He was then in his early seventies. He stayed there sixteen years. In some ways it was one of the most important periods of his life: he was handing on his responsibilities to senior disciples.But what was it like to be Sangharakshita at this time? What kind of life did he lead? This miscellany of prose and verse brings us right into the life and mind of the author - and what scope is there to be discovered: a poem on dementia; a recollection of "a season in hell." Secular Buddhism is the subject of one of the book reviews. He also pays a personal tribute to Ayya Khema. The poetry (plus an Apology), written in old age, expresses something essential of the Sangharakshita of these years; his themes include the Twin Towers, Merlin, and poems to a new friend.These are not "Buddhist teachings" in the traditional sense but the output of someone whose whole life has been lived in and for the Dharma. To read them is to be brought into contact with the living stream of Buddhism, and perhaps to come away changed. Zusammenfassung Sangharakshita moved to Moseley! Birmingham in 1997. He was in his early 70s and stayed there 16 years. What was it like to be Sangharakshita then? This miscellany of prose and verse brings us right into the life and mind of the author. These teachings are the output of someone whose whole life has been lived in and for the Dharma. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsAbout the Author ixAcknowledgements xiIntroduction 1I The Wind 13II My First Eight Years: A Mosaic of MemoriesNeighbours and Early Friends 17In the Classroom 23Outings 26Shops and Shopping 31Nana 34Illness and Accidents 37III Reveries and ReminiscencesA Room with a View 45Terra Incognita 57A Season in Hell 70Thoth, Hermes, and Sanatkumara 87The Big and the Great: Vandalism and Iconoclasm 100My Five Literary Heroes 109The Language of Scents 126And on his Dulcimer he Played 136IV Poems IDancing Round the Maypole 149The Warning Voice 151Then and Now 152Queens Past and Present 153The Economic Argument 154The Double Root 155Poet and Muse 156The Listener 157Three Arthurian Poems1. The White Hawthorn 158ii. Love and Duty 159iii. The Cell of Glass 160In Krakow1. In the Great Square 161ii. To Michal, my Interpreter 161iii. On the Balcony 162Guhyaloka, September 1999 163East is East 164To My Teacher, Chetrul Sangye Dorje 165The Six Elements Speak 166The Great Burning 169Remembering Arthadarshin 170The Silver Spoon 171To Michal, with a Photograph 172I Am Sitting in the Late Afternoon Sunshine... 173Epigrams 174Justice and Pity 175Haikus 176V Looking BackThe Search 179The Ancestors 187Reflections 205VI Book ReviewsBuddhism Without Beliefs? 215Asian Commitment 247Paths that Cross in the East 250Prophet and Loss Account 254Quiet Lives Hit Troubled Times 256Searching for me, Me*, or I? 260The Search for Nirvana 264Ways of All Buddhists 270Who's Who of Gurus 273VII Ayya Khema: A Personal Tribute 279VIII An Apology 287IX Poems IIWritten After Hearing a Radio Programme on Dementia 291Mr Wireless 292The Twin Towers 293Political Correctness Goes Mad Again? 294The Beguiling of Merlin 295The Brahmas and the Sages 296The Family Reunion 298Index 301...

Product details

• Authors: Sangharakshita
• Publisher: Windhorse Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.2015
• EAN: 9781909314689
• ISBN: 978-1-909314-68-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions